From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 18:04:26 GMT
Subject: Re: remote helpers: best practices for using the "refspec" capability
Message-ID: <BANLkTimoQtZLw4NhenR9QbAt6EhSThWj2A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1105301300520.2233@iabervon.org>

Heya,

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:43, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> But the purpose of the namespacing is to be able to continue the correct
> incremental import, so it would make sense to do some arbitrary
> transformation to make your url be a valid ref directory, and use that.
>
> It would make sense to add support for a namespace where fast-import can
> write whatever it wants, and it'll get discarded after the fetch is done,
> if it's the case that anyone can stand not having incremental imports.

I remember a patch series by someone else a lot more that _disabled_
creating of refs during fast-import, and instead allowed for
specifying what refs to update with which values at the end of the
import.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier